‘Conference news’ Archive

CFP: Ludic Geographies

Over the next week, we will be posting the calls for papers and other news on the SCGRG sponsored sessions for the 2012 RGS/IBG conference.  Thank you to everyone who submitted session ideas to us. We are delighted to be sponsoring a range of innovative slots for the summer. Ludic Geographies Tara Woodyer, University of [...]

AC2012 Call for Sessions

The RGS has now published its call for sessions for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2012 which takes place at the University of Edinburgh from Tuesday 3 to Thursday 5 July 2012. The chair of conference is Professor Chris Philo (University of Glasgow). The conference theme is ‘Security of Geography/Geography of Security’.   General Information [...]

Bursaries for Space and Irigaray Workshop

The SCGRG is pleased to offer bursaries for a two-day workshop exploring different modes of spatial engagement within the writing and philosophy of Luce Irigaray.   The workshop is organised by Sarah Cant (Oxford Brookes) and Rachel Colls (Durham). Thursday 6 and Friday 7 January 2011, at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. The workshop is funded [...]

‘Geography and the New Empirics’ – registration now open

Registration has now opened for the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group’s conference and workshop on ‘Geography and the New Empirics’.  The event is on 20th-21st January 2011, and will be hosted by UCL and The Royal Geographical Society, London. In an intellectual context that celebrates uncertainty, complexity and multiplicity, this workshop engages with the [...]

Session sponsorship – RGS / IBG 2011

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2011: Call for SCGRG Sponsored Sessions Location: RGS-IBG London Dates: 31st Aug – 2nd Sept 2010 Conference theme: The Geographical Imagination Visualisation, mapping, environmental reconstruction, landscape symbolism, terrain modelling, place picturing, virtual worlds, visionary worlds, cultural ecologies, climatic scenarios, patterned ground, sites of representation, image making, theory building, field observation…so many [...]

Your input on the 2012 conference

The RGS is asking research groups to help them choose the location for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2012.  Due to the London Olympics (25 July – 11 September 2012) it is not feasible to host AC2012 in London.  Several other locations around the UK are also fully booked with Olympic-related and other events taking [...]

Geography and the ‘new empirics’ event

The Social and Cultural Geography Research Group are organizing a conference and workshops on ‘Geography and the New Empirics’.  The event is on the 20th-21st January 2011, and will be hosted by UCL and The Royal Geographical Society, London. In an intellectual context that celebrates uncertainty, complexity and multiplicity, this workshop engages with the practicalities [...]

RGS/IBG Annual Conference news

The Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG starts on the 1st of September 2010 at the Society in London.  This 3-day event attracts over 1,000 geographers from around the world.  The meeting this year is chaired by Neil Wrigley, University of Southampton, and the theme is ‘Confronting the Challenges of the Post-Crisis Global Economy and [...]

Research Group Guests

Please note, due to travel delays after the AAG, the deadline for research guests has been extended.  Research group decisions need to be with the RGS by the 10th of May, so please notify the SCGRG by the 7th of May  if you would like to propose a guest.   The SCGRG are now accepting applications for [...]

Bursaries for SCGRG members

The SCGRG is delighted to announce the availability of a small number of bursaries for SCGRG members to attend the forthcoming conferences on ‘Salty Geographies’ and ‘Urban Green Space’. ‘Salty’ Geographies: Subaltern Maritime networks, spaces and practices is a three-day conference for academics, postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate students, organised by David Featherstone and William Hasty [...]